Today's card is my favorite from the set of cards that I made with the Pool piggies from Gerda Steiner designs. It was a lot of work, but I love the end result. I made a nice summer scene with the help of the pool piggies and a cut file from the Silhouette store. I really had fun making this card!I started with stamping the female piggies and the beachball from the stamp set Pool piggies from Gerda Steiner designs and then I coloured all images with my Polychromos pencils, the black glaze pen and the Clear Spectrum noir sparkle pen and then I fussy cut the images. With a white gelpen I have drawn little dots on the bikini and the swimming suit. I have cut a large square from white cardstock with the Crea-nest-lies XXL 50 from Crealies. I made a background on it with distress inks. On the bottom of the sqaure I used Peeled paint and for the sky I used Tumbled glass and Broken china. Then I used the silhouette and the cutting file Miss Kate bear in pool from Miss Kate cuttables to cut a swimming pool, a sun, 2 palm trees, a couple of clouds and water droplets for my scene. I have coloured all these parts with distress ink. For the swimming pool I used the colours Picked raspberry and festive berries. The sun is coloured with Mustard seed, Wild honey and Spiced marmelade. The water parts are coloured with Salty ocean ink. I have coloured the palm trees with Vintage photo, Ground espresso and Peeled paint. On the clouds I used a little bit of Tumbled glass ink. I adhered all these parts together with the piggies on the sqaure. Some pieces are adhered directly on the sqaure and for other parts I used foamtape and that way I have gotte a nice little summer scene. I adhered the sqaure with foamtape on a white card. I applied glossy accents on the sun and the sunglasses. Once I know who is going to get this card, I will stamp my sentiment on the inside of the card. Next week I will be posting card 4 from this collection.

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Goodmorning, today a new challenge starts on the Fairytale challenge blog and this week we want to see numbers on your card. I combined my card for this challenge with the monthly challenge from Gerda Steiner designs. This month you have to make a card with the image I didn't eat it (yet) - Birthday monster from Gerda Steiner designs and that image is perfect for a birthdaycard with the age on it. I have coloured I didn't eat it (yet) - Birthday monster from Gerda Steiner designs with my Prismacolor premier pencils, because that set has my most favorite shade of pink in it and this monster is asking to be coloured in hot pink. ;) I have fussy cut the image. I coloured the eyes with the black glaze pen and with the white gelpen I added dots on her cheeks. From pink cardstock I cut a little balloon with the Heart shaped balloon from My favorite things. From black cardstock I cut the number 4 from the Moxie alphabet from Quickutz 3 times and I adhered them on top of each other. The top one is coloured first with the black Spectrum noir sparkle pen and then I applied glossy accents on it. I tied white embroidery floss around the balloon and then I attached it onto the horn of my monster. On a pink card I adhered black dotted design paper. From white cardstock I cut a scalloped strip of paper with the Mini scallop edge from My favorite things (retired) and I adhered it under the dotted paper. The sentiment are from the set Tiny type from Clearly besotted stamps and I stamped them on white cardstock . From white cardstock I punched a couple little flowers and after I decorated them with a black hotfix gem I adhered them on the card.

Ik heb de binnenkant van mijn kaart ook nog een klein beetje versierd. Ik had nog een stripje zwart stipjespapier over en heb ik hieronder ook weer een wit randje geplakt dat ik heb gestanst met de Mini scallop edge from My favorite things (retired) en dat heb ik in de kaart geplakt. I also decorated the inside of the card a little bit. I had still a strip of the black dotted paper left over and after I added a white border that I cut with the Mini scallop edge from My favorite things (retired), I adhered it on the inside of the card.

Goodmorning, today a new challenge starts on the Di's digi designs challenge blog. This time our challenge is Floral fancy. Di from Di's digi stamps has lots of cute images with flowers on them, so it was reallyhard to pick an image for this challenge. I have decided to make a card with the image Daisy fun from Di's digi stamps. I have coloured the image with my Derwent Procolour pencils and the black glaze pen and then I fussy cut the image. With the Crea-nest-lies XXL 44 from Crealies I have die-cut a rectangle from orange cardstock. To add something extra to the rectangle I applied Wild honey and Riper persimmon distress ink on the edges of the rectangle. That way the edges are a bit darker. I tied white embroidery thread around the rectangle and then I adhered the image with foamtape on the rectangle. The word thanks is die-cut with a die from Aliexpress. I have adhered the orange rectangle with foamtape on a white card.

Goodmorning, this is my second blogpost from today. Earlier today I have posted a card for the Gerda Steiner designs and now I am posting my card for the As you like it challenge blog. This time we want you to use your favourite embellishment on your card. Most of the times my cards are pretty simple without a lot of fuss, but there are 2 kinds of embellishments I reguraly use. First of all I loves dies with stitched or pierced edges, because they give a little something extra. My second favourite are my hotfix gems. I use them very often and I enjoy using them. Hotfix gems are gems with a glue layer on their backs. With a hotfix tool that gets hot, you can melt the glue layer and the hotfix gems stick to the paper (or even fabric). Hotfix gems are available in many sizes, shapes and colours available. For today's challenge I made a card with the digital stamp Chin up buttercup from Di's digi stamps. I have coloured the image with my Polychromos pencils. I have die-cut the image with the Crea-nest-lies XXL 44 from Crealies. I have added a scalloped rectangle that I have cut from white cardstock with the Crea-nest-lies XXL 56 from Crealies. I have adhered the image with foamtape on top of the scalloped rectangle. From yellow design paper from the Sweet celebrations paperpack from My favorite things I have die-cut a rectangle with the Crea-nest-lies XXL 52 from Crealies and I adhered it on a white card. Then I adhered the image on the card. Then I decorated the card with black hotfix gems. In the buttercups I used really tiny gems. For the noses and the eyes I used a bit bigger hotfix gem.

My card from today is a pretty easy one, but because of all the colouring I had to do, it took a while to finish. On a piece of white cardstock I stamped a couple of sunbathing piggies from tehe stamp set Pool piggies from Gerda Steiner designsand then I masked the piggies and stamped the bath towels. I have coloured all images with my Polychromos pencils. I have used many bright happy colours to give the card a nice siummer feeling. I have die-cut the cardstock with the Crea-nest-lies XXL 52 from Crealies and then I adhered the rectangle with foamtape on a kraft card. On a piece of black cardstock I stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink and then I embossed it with white embossingpowder. I have cut the sentiment into a banner shape and then I added faux stitching with a white gelpen.

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Goodmorning, today I am posting a tag that I made with the digital stamp Hello friend turtle from Gerda Steiner designs. I changed the colour of the lines from this image on the computer. This way they were not black when I printed them, but a light grey colour. This way I could use the no-line colouring method on this image. I have used my Polychromos pencils to colour the image and then I fussy cut it. From white cardstock I cut the largest tag from the Anytime tags die set from Lil inkers. I have cut the bottom part from the tag from yellow design paper from the Kraft in colour - colour paperpad from Doodlebug and also the little ring. I adhered those on the tag after I embossed the tag with the Polka dots embossing folder from Quickutz. On the yellow design paper I stamped a sentiment from the stampset Happy hoppy from Gerda Steiner designs. And then I tied white embroidery floss around the tag. I have die-cut a little heart from red cardstock with the Holiday hearts stars craft die from Simons says stamp. Then I I tied white ribbon through the tag.

Goodmorning, today I am posting a card, because I was asked to be a guestdesigner for Gerda Steiner designs again and if you read the title of this blogpost, you will know that soon I will be posting another post. I have received the stamp set Pool piggies from Gerda Steiner designsand I made 4 cards in total. Today I am posting the first card.

My first card is a spinnercard. I stamped the air matress and the reading piggy from the set Pool piggies from Gerda Steiner designstwice and then I coloured all 4 images with my Polychromos pencils. The air matress had almost the same shape on both sides, so I could stick the images together on both back sides of the image. I adhered some fishing thread between the both images. I have adhered a piggy on each side of the matress images. On a aheet of white cardstock I stamped a stripey background with the Pinstripe from My favorite things with real red ink from Stampin up. I die-cut a hole and a square from the striped paper with the Crea-nestlies XXL 33 & 34 from Crealies. I used the circle dies again to cut a circle frame from red cardstock and to cut a aperture in the front panel of a red card. I adhered the fishing thread above and below the aperture and then I adhered the striped paper and the circle frame then on the front of the card. Now you can spin the image and if you let the image go, it will spin really hard.

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Goodmorning, today a new challenge starts on the Fairytale challenge blog. This time our challenge is Beloved family, so you have to make something special for a special someone in your family. I made 2 cards for this challenge for my little cousins Menno and Niek. A while ago they were going on vacation to Italy and I wanted to give them some pocket money. I decided to make a card and a matching envelope to give them the money. The boys were really happy and they bought a toy car and dinosaur. ;)